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Originally Posted by hedman2003
Cashman
Didn't realise there was a deadline to respond and if you read the original post I didn't say it was my idea but that there seemed some merit in the suggestion, it was posted to prompt some discussion. Many of the responses were about caring parents who give their children all the love and attention they possibly can even if they are on a limited income and I fully understand the arguments that people have put forward.
The point that was being made is there are pupils in many if not all schools who because of ineffective parenting do not get a hot meal each day.
If I saw a homeless person in the street I would prefer to give them a hot drink than money at least on that basis the money is not going on drink or drugs and for me the idea of a mandatory meal would ensure that child benefit was being spent on the neglected child and not frittered away by parents
I do not think I was right and everybody else was wrong but asked for peoples opinions after all its called free speech so thanks to everybody for their contributions
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So why punish the majority of good parents to help the bad? Why are we rewarding people for their bad behaviour and choices, at the cost of good parents?
Theres plenty of other ways to achieve what you are trying to do. Did ration books not do this to some extent?
I was brought up on school dinners of rice pudding with jam, chocholate pudding with pink custard (if you could get that recipe for the pink custard, would be great btw, its just not normal custard with pink colouring despite what ppl say) and basically a load of stodge- absolutely ideal for a child who eats that, then goes raging round the playground, playing tig, or british bulldogs etc.
Its stupid to generalise families, especially to the extent that you're talking about. If you are suggesting that this idea has been put forward to help 'neglected' children, is that not what social services is there for?
And to be honest, if you class a child as neglected because of what goes into their stomach, then my son, a picky eater at the best of times, should obviously just pack his bags and wait for the knock at the front door.
And on a slightly political note, I would love to know the true cost of the meeting you attended, ie how many hours it lasted, times the hourly wage of the attendees. You would have probably fed a small to medium primary school just off that. And it makes you wonder, when the atrocities of Jersey are so highly in the media, why are people more concerned about the weight of children, rather than their physical and emotional well being